What will happen to path of exile 1 when 2 comes out?

What will happen to path of exile 1 when 2 comes out? I know It's still a bit early, but some people spend a lot of money on path of exile 1 and if you'd have to start from scratch again in 2 or if 1 was discontinued I can't imagine people would be super stoked.

From my understanding, it will be a seamless transition. You'll be able to play the old 10 acts with the old characters or the new acts with new ones. The two games will co-exist.

it isn't a separate game. ppl need to stop calling it (GGG especially) path of exile 2. it isn't path of exile 2. its patch 4.0. path of exile 4.0

its the same game. they're essentially just changing a bunch of stuff and added another story line, another 6 acts or whatever that you can do instead of the 10 we have now. and specific ascendancies will be connected with each story line.

poe1 will have the ascendancies we have now.
poe2 will have to be played to get the new ascendancies.
once they're all unlocked once, you can play whichever you want and choose whatever you want

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xMustard wrote:

it isn't a separate game. ppl need to stop calling it (GGG especially) path of exile 2. it isn't path of exile 2. its patch 4.0. path of exile 4.0

its the same game. they're essentially just changing a bunch of stuff and added another story line, another 6 acts or whatever that you can do instead of the 10 we have now. and specific ascendancies will be connected with each story line.

poe1 will have the ascendancies we have now.
poe2 will have to be played to get the new ascendancies.
once they're all unlocked once, you can play whichever you want and choose whatever you want

You're close to right. It's actually 7 acts that play slower to average out to be the same time as the 10 acts of PoE 1. At least in theory as the top racers are running the 10 acts in just under 4 hours now so will the PoE 2 seven acts be doable in 4 hours? Obviously it's an unknown until we get to play it.

One of the bigger complaints is that over the last few years power and speed creep has allowed the racing though of the 10 acts which some players like but many do not. Even Chris is on record as not being happy that PoE can be raced through so fast. I saw a level 100 on the ladder Monday morning after Delirium started so that was < 3 days easy for 1 nolifer racer. Since slowing down everything globally would piss off lots of players the only way out of this "creep" mess is to code an entirely new storyline of 7 acts that are slower to play. So you can choose which way to play the main storyline, 10 faster PoE 1 acts or 7 slower PoE 2 acts.

My understanding is that mapping is still the same Atlas mapping no matter which way you run the acts. So it is PoE 4.0 no matter what GGG wants to call it.

So the league never ends.... server merge every 3 month sigh

Do we get to keep all our MTX stuff we've bought? I assume they should work on our characters still if it's the same game.

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Slavpocalypse wrote:

Do we get to keep all our MTX stuff we've bought? I assume they should work on our characters still if it's the same game.

Yes. you keep everything and they'll make sure they work on the new content

if they ain't seperated. does it mean level cap is rising?????????? I mean like some say here you can play 10acts, then more 6 acts. is it on the same character or new one? If new why isn't it poe 2?

Its gonna be a separate storyline (probably by character creation) in the same game. with completely different socket/gem setups(support sockets are gonna be in gems instead of equips) passive tree will probably be completely different. Killing is gonna be alot slower to allow multiplayer again. I bet stash tabs are gonna be specific to the version characters.

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Fausimo wrote:

Its gonna be a separate storyline (probably by character creation) in the same game. with completely different socket/gem setups(support sockets are gonna be in gems instead of equips) passive tree will probably be completely different. Killing is gonna be alot slower to allow multiplayer again. I bet stash tabs are gonna be specific to the version characters.

So it's poe "2"?